Coton Orchard Busway Inquiry Underway

Our team is making the case for an alternative route for the Cambourne-Cambridge Busway, to avoid a new road being built through Coton Orchard wildlife site. Read more

Our team is making the case for an alternative route for the Cambourne-Cambridge Busway, to avoid a new road being built through Coton Orchard wildlife site. Read more

We’re looking for a volunteer to help us update our school database so that we can continue to run our popular outdoor education programme at Wandlebury, which every year helps 2,000 children have fun learning about their local nature and history. Read more

on a childhood immersed in a brook, & creatively curating a festival of riverine film.

This autumn, we’re saying thank you to everyone who chooses to support Cambridge Past, Present & Future by offering an extra month of membership, free of charge, when you join in October.

Discover the magic of autumn at Wandlebury Country Park. Brilliant foliage, wildlife, and trails make 2025 a year of unforgettable colour.

Abbey People, one of the River Cam CAN partners have been working with the community to improve a problem area on Barnwell Road, to help stop parking on the verge, encourage wildlife, and build relationships in the community.

Step into nature with our free weekly walks at Wandlebury. A gentle stroll, friendly faces, and coffee afterwards, it’s fitness, fresh air, and good company all in one.

"Every human is, of course, a waterbody. Water flows in and through us. Our fate flows with that of rivers, and always has. We have largely lost a love-language for rivers.”
Robert Macfarlane

Saving Coton Orchard is about more than one landscape – it’s a choice between bulldozing nature for speed, or building a Cambridge that grows responsibly and sustainably.

Enjoy music, dancing, storytelling, talks, stalls, and puppet shows as Cambridge’s famous medieval fair is brought to life once again. Free entry for all.